Super Fun Team Building Activities for Employees at the Workplace
Jun 8, 2018If you’re looking for a hike in productivity and efficiency within your employees, the one thing you need to do is organize some Team Building Activities within the group. These games act as a motivating factor and also make the work environment more fun and coordinative.
Although there might be more sighs than yays, the end result of these workplace activities for emplyoees will increase the unity among them. So whether you were hired to put together some team building initiatives or you think your team just needs to get together, BookEventZ has come up with a list of some of the most work-friendly entertaining activities.
Scavenger Hunt
Objective: A team bonding exercise that breaks up office cliques and encourages people to work with colleagues from other teams, departments, or just social circles.
Time: 30-45 mins
No of Participants: Groups of 3-5
Tools: Pen and Paper
Rules: Break the group into teams of two or more. Make a list of goofy items for each team. These items will then have to be searched around the premises and photographed, as a group. To make things interesting, set a deadline by which they must complete all tasks. Whoever completes the most tasks the quickest, wins!
Back-to-Back Drawing
Objective: Enhances Communication Skills among the employees
Time: 20-30 mins
No of Participants: Groups of 2
Tools: Paper, pens and an image.
Rules: Split everyone into pairs of 2 and have them sit back to back. One person gets an image and other gets the paper and pen. The person with the images has to describe what he sees without giving away specific details while his partner draws the image using his imagination. Set a timer and the couple with the best replica wins the game.
Office Trivia
Objective: Team Bonding
Time: 15-20 mins
No of Participants: As many as you want
Tools: 20-25 trivia questions about your workplace
Rules: The best way to break the ice between employees from different departments is to hold a quiz about each other and the workplace. You can come up with a series of questions like, “Who knows how to speak a particular language?” “Where does a particular employee stay?” “How long has a particular employee been in the organization”. This is the simplest and most effective way to start a conversation between everyone.
Salt and Pepper
Objective: Breaking communication barriers
Time: 20-30 mins
No of Participants: In multiples of 2
Tools: Pen, paper and tape
Rules: Think of well-known pairs that go together like a nut and bolt, cookies and cream, Mickey and Minnie, salt and pepper, and write them to two chits separately. Now tape a chit on everyone’s back, and have them find their other half without telling them what’s on their back. They can figure it out by asking yes-no questions to their colleagues and when they do they have to figure 3 common things between them.
Egg Drop
Objective: Creative, Teamwork and Problem Solving
Time: 15-20 mins
No of Participants: Groups of 3-5
Tools: A dozen Eggs, office supplies like tape, newspapers, rubber bands, etc. and an area to drop the egg like a parking lot or some other place you don’t mind getting messy.
Rules: The rules of this game are simple. Try to save the egg from the fall. Divide the group into teams of 3-5 and ask them to hunt for office supplies that can help create a protective layer around the egg. After an allotted amount of time drop these eggs from the second floor and increase the number of floors until there is one survivor.
Spider Web
Objective: Creative Problem Solving & Collaboration Exercise
Time: 15-20 mins
No of Participants: Groups of 3-5
Tools: Twine, Tape and an empty room.
Rules: Tape strings of twine across a room in different directions. Make groups of 3-5 and then ask them to cross the room in the mission impossible style. The Groups that can get all their teammates across the room without touching a single web wins.
Human Knot
Objective: Good communication, team building and cooperation.
Time: 15 – 30 minutes
No of Participants: Groups of 7-10
Tools: None
Rules: Ask everyone to stand in a circle facing each other. Once that’s done have everyone stretch their right hand and grab hold of a random person’s hand from the circle. Then ask them to do the same with the left. Within an allotted set of time, ask everyone to entangle themselves to make a circle again without breaking the bond. You can also make smaller circles from a larger group, which can then compete with each other.
The Minefield
Objective: Trust building, communication and effective listening.
Time: 15-30 min
No of Participants: In multiples of 2
Tools Needed: Various handheld objects, several blindfolds
Rules: Randomly place objects like bottles, cones or bags in an open space like a parking lot or a park. Make pairs and one of them be blindfolded. The task here is for the other one to direct his blind partner across the space without touching these minefields. To increase the difficulty, you can create a path that the blindfolded person has to follow or the person whos directing can only give opposite directions.
So there you go, BookEventZ list of favorite Team Building activities that will definitely build a bond between your employees which will then help them work productively and effectively.
